The Counter-Reformation

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The Counter-Reformation

• Effects of the Reformation

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Causes of the Reformation

• Humanist values led people to question church
  authority.
• Some clergy were corrupt, worldly, or poorly
  educated.
• Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses.
• The printing press helped spread Reformation
  ideas.

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1) Many Protestant sects developed

• St. Paul UMC
• St. Gerards Catholic Church
• St. Charles Catholic Church
• Shawnee Alliance
• Shawnee Presbyterian
• Crossroads Church
• Lima Community Church of the Nazarene

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2) Church Leaders Reformed the Church

• Jesuits
• Founded by Ignatius of Loyola
• Jesuit colleges Georgetown, Xavier, Loyola,
  Walsh-Jesuit
• Concentration on education

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2) Church Leaders Reformed the Church (Contd)

• Council of Trent
• Convened by Pope Paul III in 1545.
• Delegates examined criticisms made by Protestants
  of the Catholic Church
• Addressed the abuses of the church
• Corruption of the church
• Training of priests was regulated
• Financial abuse was curbed
• Sale of indulgences was abolished

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2) Church Leaders Reformed the Church (Contd)

• Women in the church

• Roman Inquisition

• Church court established by the Catholic church
• Tried people who were accused of being
  Protestant, practicing witchcraft, or breaking
  church law.

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3) Religious Intolerance Anti-Semitism
Increased

• Renewed zeal for Catholic faith
• Persecution and hysteria
• Heretics
• witchcraft
• Political Effects
• Rising sense of nationalism
• Protestant Reformation encouraged the formation
  of independent states nation
• Separation of church state

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4) Religious Conflicts

• Religious conflicts spread across Europe.
• Italian Wars
• Spain France fought for control of Italian
  peninsula
• Significance Italian renaissance expanded
  throughout Europe
• Peasants Wars
• Took place in Germany
• Peasants were upset with high taxes lack of
  power.

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Effects of the Reformation

• Many Protestant sects developed.
• Church leaders reformed the Catholic Church.
• Religious intolerance and anti-Semitism
  increased.
• Religious conflicts spread across Europe.